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Critical load


7. "Critical load" means a quantitative assessment of the impact of one or more pollutants, below which, according to current scientific knowledge, no significant adverse effects occur for specific sensitive elements of the environment.

Source: Protocol on the Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions or Their Transboundary Flows to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution 1979

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